Fly-catcher.



PATBNTED JULY 21. 1903.

0. WENIGMANN.

FLY GATGHER.

APPLIUATION FILED APR. 18, 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented July 21, 1903.

PATENT OEEIcE.

CARL WENIGMANN, OF LEIPZIG, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO GESELLSCHAFT FUR PATENTVERWERTUNG MIT BESOHRANKTER HAFTUNG, OF LEIPZIG,

GERMANY.

,FLY-CATCHERQ SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 734,208, dated July 21, 1903.

Application filed April 18, 1903.

To all whom it'may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL WENIGMANN, a subject of the German Emperor, residing at 39 Windmiihlen'strasse, Leipzig, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fly-Catchers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a fly-catcher with a catch-band, which can be drawn out, arranged above the sticky composition in a receptacle for both. The peculiar form of the device prevents the composition being preinaturely conveyed to the zigzag-arranged band and insures the band being supplied with a uniform layer of the composition as it is drawn out.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a front elevation of the fly-catcher opened; Fig. 2, a transverse section of the same.

The special feature of the fly-catcher consists in the laying of the zigzag-folded catchband b in the receptacle a, in the form of an upward-curved arch. The coating composition. d, as in similar known fly-catchers, is placed in the lower part of thereceptacle, in which a slot is formed, through which the In consequence of the catch-band I) being arranged in the receptacle in the form of an arch the parts where the band is folded lie firmly against the corresponding sides of the receptacle a, so that the layer of the band which from time to time is undermost forms a partition that prevents the composition, which has a tendency to spread, from reaching the other layers of Serial No. 153,303. (No model.)

the bandis folded tend to come near the lower sides of the receptacle, and thus to draw the composition with them to the lower part of the receptacle, so that at this spot the composition fills the whole width of the receptacle a, and thereby the whole width of the band is uniformly covered.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. A fly-catcher consisting of a box or receptacle having a slit in its lower edge, a sticky composition contained in the box, and a zigzag-folded band bent in the form of an arch and held in that form in the receptacle so that when withdrawn through the slit the folded parts tend to rub against the lower sides of the receptacle to move the composition toward the slit.

2. A fly-catcher consisting of a rectangular box adapted to be suspended from one corner and provided with a slit at its diagonally opposite corner, a sticky composition contained in the box, and a band folded in a zigzag manher and sprung in between opposite corners of the box to'form an arch-shaped partition dividing the upper corner from the lower corner, and adapted to be withdrawn through the slit and coated with the sticky composition, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CARL WENIGMANN.

Witnesses:

H. SACK, RUDOLPH FRICKE. 

